7.
Differences in texture features in geometrical measures and Renyi dimensions categories between each pair of groups of preinvasive lesions, MIAs and IPAs
| Category | Texture features | P value | ||
| Preinvasive
lesions vs. MIAs |
Preinvasive
lesions vs. IPAs |
MIAs vs. IPAs | ||
| MIAs, minimally invasive adenocarcinomas; IPAs, invasive pulmonary adenocarcinomas; *, statistical analysis using analysis of variance (ANOVA) followed by Tukey’s HSD post hoc test, otherwise using a Kruskal-Wallis rank sum test followed by Dunn-Bonferroni post hoc test. | ||||
| Geometrical measures | Extruded surface area | >0.05 | <0.001 | <0.001 |
| Extruded volume | >0.05 | 0.002 | <0.001 | |
| Extruded surface: volume ratio | >0.05 | >0.05 | >0.05 | |
| Renyi dimensions | Box-counting dimension | >0.05* | >0.05* | >0.05* |
| Correlation dimension | >0.05 | 0.001 | <0.001 | |